I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want. — Charlie Peacock Copy Share Image
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural… — John L. Dagg Copy Share Image
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Deciding not to decide is a prerogative that will still yield you a result tomorrow.” — Self Discipline Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's people's own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between 'this is what someone looks like… — Erin Heatherton Copy Share Image
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness."… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus,… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't… — Shannen Doherty Copy Share Image
The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
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![“I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said: "Kaz, everyone is used to the word emptiness for shunyata. This might not sit well with people. He said: "Translator's prerogative!" Then he…” quote by Joan Halifax](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/410/joan-halifax-11817_assuming_i-remember-having-a-discussion-with-kaz_727693.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus, that is his unquestionable prerogative. But here on my anthill, it's mine to say: oh, do piss off, you ineffable snobs.” quote by David Bennun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/david-bennun-25818_bob_bob-dylan-may-for-whatever-reasons-of-hi_3038552.jpg)
